Movies like Lost Horizon 2025
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Lost Horizon (2025)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: South Africa
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A former soldier, now working for hire, fights to rescue the innocent in a land torn by war. Facing ruthless enemies and betrayal, he struggles for survival, justice, and redemption.
Style:
intense, grim, epic, tense, bleak, dark, suspenseful, action drama, emotional, fast paced
Plot:
soldier, survival, betrayal, rescue, redemption, revenge, mercenary, justice, violent, combat, moral ambiguity, anti hero, sacrifice, loss, resilience, political unrest, underdog, humanitarian, dangerous, reconstruction
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Most similar movies to Lost Horizon
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, intense, dark and suspenseful films with plots about revenge, moral ambiguity, survival, betrayal, violent, soldier and military mostly in Action, Adventure and War genres. Some movies like Lost Horizon: The Mercenary (2019), Hounds of War (2024), Firehawk (1993), Jathara (2024), Tough to Kill (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a mission in South America goes wrong a mercenary is left for dead, but he is nursed back to health and reborn with a new outlook on life. But his peaceful days are short-lived when mercenaries he used to work with cross his path again and he ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Plot:
mercenary, revenge, redemption, lifestyle change, changing lives, soldier, ex soldier, faith, confronting the past, belief in god, war trauma, violent ...
Place:
south america
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Malta, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.
Style:
dark, fast paced, intense, suspense, noir ...
Plot:
mercenary, violent, survival, sole survivor, brotherhood, military, combat, vengeance, retribution, betrayal, assassination, arms dealing ...
Similarity:
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223
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
During a daring mission in Vietnam, a helicoptor squadron is downed. While the soldiers try to escape capture by the Viet Cong, clues that the copter was sabotaged lead to brutal infighting, as they search for the traitor among them.
Style:
suspense, intense, tense, grim, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vietnam war, soldier, traitor, military, jungle, combat, helicopter, sabotage, squad, fight, jungle warfare, paranoia ...
Place:
vietnam, indochina
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In 19th-century, a sacred temple's blessing turns to a curse when betrayal shatters faith. A young man must confront a ruthless tyrant, unraveling dark secrets, to restore his family's honor and bring hope back to a drought-stricken land.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, period piece, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
betrayal, curse, drought, oppression, hopes, family honor, redemption, tyrant, justice, religion, resilience, despot ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Action, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of mercenaries escort a man with a million dollar bounty on his head across the African terrain. Double crosses, back stabbing, and gunfire follows.
Style:
tense
Plot:
jungle, hitman, bounty, betrayal, deception, violent, manhunt, kidnapping, ambush, bloodbath, paranoia, survival ...
Time:
70s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Glenn Salvage stars as Michael Eastman, a narcotics officer who is framed and gunned down in an execution-style hit, only to be rebuilt by medical science and return seeking vengeance on the criminal empire that set him up.
Style:
action thriller, crime drama, tense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
frame up, revenge, vigilante, police corruption, betrayal, anti hero, resurrection, assassination, conspiracy, corruption, organized crime, underworld ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The movie follows the story of a PASKAU team led by Captain Adib and his mentor, Major Adnan, tasked with protecting humanitarians serving in war torn country, Namburi. On their return home, their plane gets unexpectedly shot down by local ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, tension ...
Plot:
military, rescue, soldier, pilot, commander, aircraft, air force, rescue mission, survival, plane crash, search and rescue, risk ...
Place:
malaysia, southeast asia
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Once soaked in blood, the village of Netterekere had seen years of uneasy peace. But when four close friends - Guna, Manoj, Balu, and Charan - find themselves caught in the fire of an old rivalry between Netterekere and Bailakere, the past returns ...
Style:
brutal, dark, action drama, crime thriller, intense ...
Plot:
revenge, violence, bloodbath, final showdown, gang war, betrayal, criminal underworld, confrontation, loss, mature, moral ambiguity, power struggle
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
In the 1930s, during the British Raj, Analeesan "Eesa", a former soldier of the British Indian Army called Captain Miller, is on a mission to protect the people from the British after witnessing an atrocity.
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, intense, heroic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
soldier, activism, british raj, resistance, freedom, colonialism, criminal, fight, battles, betrayal, atrocity, sacrifice ...
Time:
1930s, 80s
Place:
india
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A military contractor hired to seize a weapon that turns people into savage killers seeks revenge when his brother falls victim to the device.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, soldier, military, killing, weapons, murder, mission, bio weapon, rescue mission, murderer, military officer, covert operation ...
Similarity:
53%
248
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the underground world of contract killers, mistakes cannot be tolerated. Set "Doreé Seay", a top brutal mercenary with an icy exterior, finds out the hard way when one mistake sends her on a treacherous mission to clear her name. ...
Style:
action thriller, intense, tense, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
mercenary, assassin, contract killer, survival, female protagonist, hunting, criminal underworld, extreme violence, falsely accused, violent, cat and mouse, hand to hand combat ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A squad of American soldiers hunt down a suspected spy that escaped an internment camp during WWII.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, betrayal, espionage, world war, mistrust, wartime, concentration camp, paranoia, war, wartime life, military ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
california
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A con-artist meets a tough fighter and sees him as her ticket to a better life. The two make an agreement and head off to New Orleans to arrange a match with "the man" - the mysterious king of bare-knuckled boxing. There are no rules for ...
Style:
dark, intense, crime drama, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot:
underground fighting, fight to the death, con artists, violent, survival, criminal underworld, tough guy, moral ambiguity, illegal gambling, ambition, desperation, male protagonist ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A soldier attacks his corrupt superior officer and is court marshalled but before he can be sent to a firing squad he escapes...
Style:
tense, intense, macaroni combat
Plot:
vietnam war, jungle, escape, soldier, military, court martial, battlefield, jungle warfare, tyranny, rebellion, combat, survival ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
49%
344
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Cambodia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An innocent man sentenced to rot in a Cambodian jail is released for the sadistic pleasure of twisted trophy hunters and forced to fight - or die.
Style:
suspense, tension, action thriller, intense, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, prison, manhunt, struggle for survival, hunting, fight, violence, undercover agent, life & death, mission of murder, most dangerous game, cruelty ...
Place:
cambodia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam veteran crosses paths with a mobster on the run with $15 million, and takes it as an opportunity to play the hero and heal in the process.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, grim, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vietnam war, redemption, small town, organized crime, violence, revenge, confrontation, showdown, alcoholism, law enforcement, corruption, underworld ...
Place:
midwest
Similarity:
46%
109
Genre: Action
Country: China
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film tells the female agent Ameera after a failed mission, private life crisis, conspiracy, and attempt to create organizational struggle Resident Evil dark story found during the processing of personal crisis.
Style:
dark, tense, intense, suspense, noir
Plot:
conspiracy, female protagonist, female agent, betrayal, espionage, moral ambiguity, spy thriller, identity crisis, corruption, survival, resilience, investigation ...
Similarity:
46%
113
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Seven year-old old twin brothers, separated during the Civil War in Tajikistan, face each other years later in a new war where one is an American soldier and the other is Taliban.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, dramatic ...
Plot:
brothers, soldier, twins, brother, civil war, battles, fight, competitor, dysfunctional family, military, american soldier, evil twin ...
Place:
afghanistan
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Action, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Civil war reigns in one of the most dangerous areas of the world for 7 years. The Turkish army enters the region without any allied states. Among the officials in the region, there are also the Special Forces team under the command of Captain ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, patriotic, action drama ...
Plot:
terrorist, soldier, military, civil war, teamwork, struggle, battlefield, sacrifice, combat, special forces, struggle for survival, terrorism ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
When a young woman's suicide and a spate of robberies and murders rattle the city, IPS officer Vikrant is drawn into a web of secrets, grief, and betrayal. As he digs deeper, he's not just cracking a case-he's standing up for dignity, ...
Style:
crime thriller, tense, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Plot:
justice, investigation, police procedural, urban, dignity, resilience, secrets, female empowerment, courage, women's rights, murder mystery, betrayal ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When an alien hunter arrives on Earth, it takes down a gang of warlords and unexpectedly becomes a folk hero to the oppressed locals. Now, with their support, the alien sets its sights on the warlords' ruthless leader.
Style:
grim, tense, suspenseful, mockbuster
Plot:
post apocalyptic, survival, wasteland, anti hero, folk hero, dystopian future, revenge, cat and mouse, isolation, moral ambiguity, shootout, alien ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Humanity has survived what seemed to be the apocalypse, but a threat still remains. Delta Zulu follows Clark, a freelance reporter who will be amongst the few civilians ever allowed into a Red Zone, a lawless quarantined area that still breathes ...
Style:
bleak, tense, grim, tension, dark ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, survival, lawlessness, dystopia, violence, isolation, combat, moral ambiguity, government corruption, post war, investigative journalism, black ops ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former special-forces soldier is given the opportunity to bring the man who betrayed his team on their final mission in Eastern Europe several years ago - to justice.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
ex special forces, betrayal, soldier, revenge, battles, hitman, gang, criminal, prison, murderer, jailed, mission ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sergeant Thomas Duncan takes his men behind enemy lines to recover a secret government fighter copter and its pilot, a secret weapon all his own. But once stationed in the dense jungle brush of Vietnam, their radio goes out all hope of contacting ...
Style:
tropical, tension, suspense, dark, sinister ...
Plot:
vietnam war, military, jungle, rescue mission, combat, behind enemy lines, battlefield, survival, betrayal, secret weapon, helicopter, leadership ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
cambodia
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Captain Baronski, assigned a squad of misfit soldiers, trains them into a fighting powerhouse "The Expendables." Breaking every rule, they must risk their lives crossing into Cambodia to save the American hostages.
Style:
fast paced, suspense, cult classic, period piece, independent film
Plot:
vietnam war, military, hostage rescue, rescue mission, explosions, dangerous mission, violent, squad, jungle warfare, survival, covert operation, brotherhood ...
Time:
year 1988
Place:
cambodia, vietnam
Similarity:
42%
5K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A former fighter must find the missing son of an opponent he accidentally killed years ago, taking on a brutally violent crime gang in Marseille.
Style:
dark, brutal, suspenseful, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
widow, violent, mixed martial arts, guilt, gang, missing person, redemption, criminal underworld, atonement, urban, kidnapping, martial arts ...
Place:
marseille, france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1973 Vietnam, gas bombs are dropped on villages, killing men, women, and children. Two downed American pilots, accused of the bombings, are captured and tortured. Both men give name, rank, and serial number but neither one confesses. Elsewhere, a ...
Style:
dark, tense, suspense, grim, political thriller ...
Plot:
torture, military, violence, cover up, prisoners of war, vietnam war, hostage rescue, rescue mission, conspiracy, trauma, brutality, sacrifice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a success, but the two incur the wrath of the world's most feared terrorist, a fanatical Islamic, when they set out to do one last mission.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, suspense, cult classic, grim ...
Plot:
terrorism, commando, cia, military, espionage, revenge, friendship, explosions, violent, rescue mission, sacrifice, loyalty ...
Place:
angola
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A team of military operators descend into the dark, savage world of Labyrinthia to save the dying Earth from a hellish apocalypse by retrieving the water stolen by the inhabitants below.
Style:
bleak, tense, grim, action packed, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, post apocalypse, lone wolves, desperation, redemption, revenge, anti hero, survival, escape, isolation ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Left For Dead is a revenge thriller set in a city called Hope, where a crimelord called Kincaid rules with an iron fist. Williams, a former hitman for Kincaid is attacked and left for dead when he tries to leave the organisation. He teams up with ...
Style:
dark, crime drama, tense, brutal, noir ...
Plot:
kickboxing, revenge, hitman, retribution, payback, male protagonist, crime boss, betrayal, gang violence, vigilante, mob boss, urban ...
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